Alsace Lorraine Quotes

#1. After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.

Jules Ferry

#2. The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.

Edgar Quinet

#3. Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite ... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.

Adolf Hitler

#4. Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

Samuel Johnson

#5. I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

Arthur Balfour

#6. The humiliation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensitive people; and their hearts are still hot, not so much against Germany as against the Empire.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#7. I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

Kelly Reilly

#8. I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests, roles and rituals, talking in twelve languages at once so the true words won't be so obvious. I am not used to a plainspoken, honest truth.

David Levithan

#9. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.

Benjamin Franklin